The Quarm LMI consortium, the project’s developer, attested that neither any dwelling units nor pertinent documentation were impacted by the fire that broke out at the project site.
Workers burnt certain weedy areas of the land in order to prepare for the development of the abandoned project. Regrettably, the fire extended to outside warehouses that held outdated construction equipment.
Speaking to media on Wednesday, December 26, while on a site visit with Sector Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Managing Director Kofi Adaboh Ofori Amanfo explained the circumstances:
“So, I think yesterday around 1 o’clock, we had our labourers working on the campsite as you saw it when you came here. So as we came here in November, we started trying to clear the campsite to prepare for actual development. So I think some labourers set some little fire just to clear the weeds they had gathered.
“But they couldn’t control it, and they had to move into one of our external warehouses that went up, and that’s what, the fire from the fire station at Sege came to help us to quench. So it’s really not the houses, as I said earlier. It was the storage area at our campsite and behind me, you can see the houses. It’s not touched. I’ve not even started working in there. So there’s nothing happening here,” he said.
The consortium was urged by Works and Housing Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah to move the project along quickly and adhere to the established schedules.
He stressed the need of following safety regulations and building norms, adding:
“In accordance with the various instruments, like the building code, like the site layout itself, do your best to comply, and then also you’ve given us timelines by which you expect to complete this project, do well to stick to those ones. We’ll wait for the fire department to give us an update of what may have been destroyed in the old shed that got destroyed in that incident.
“But I’m happy to see that contrary to the story that, you know, the housing project has been burnt now. It’s still here intact and that is the old shed with the old materials in there. Two of them, and then two containers that caught fire. At least, that gives us some comfort. So carry on with your work,” he stated.
